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Apple A9

Apple A9
Apple A9 is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from Apple. It began to be released in September 2015. The SoC has 2 cores produced using 14 nm technology. And it also has a maximum frequency of 1850 MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.
Top SOC: 211

Basic

Label Name
Apple
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
September 2015
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
APL1022
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Cores
2
Technology
14 nm
Frequency
1850 MHz
Transistor count
2
Instruction set
ARMv8-A

GPU Specifications

GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
650 MHz
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
Execution units
6
Shading units
32
OpenCL version
1.2
Vulkan version
1.1
DirectX version
11

Connectivity

Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
5G support
No
Bluetooth
4.2
Wi-Fi
5
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

Memory type
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
Memory Bus
2x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

L2 Cache
3 MB
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Storage type
NVMe
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
TDP
5 W

AnTuTu 10

Score
336091

Performance

CPU
Score
107277
GPU
Score
81455
Memory
Score
60270
UX
Score
87089
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Geekbench 6

Single Core
623
Multi Core
957

Geekbench 5

Single Core
520
Multi Core
962

FP32 (float)

246

Compared to Other SoC

0%
2%
24%
Better then 0% SOC over the past year
Better then 2% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 24% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

211
Ranks 211 among all SOC on our website
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